The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-09-01

aker. Such kind Of fiaying Foraker
can be well pleased with. II may
make him a President. Playing
Democrats has been a pleasant Oceu-
patton for Gov. Foraker for some
time past-such a fiaying as has
brought forth innumerable squeals
from his opponents. Il Is the truth
that cuts, and we would advise the
Democratic brethren TO bear their
excOriating more stOcially.
THE prohibition conventions of
TOmpkins county are growing small
by degrees and beautifully less. The
one held Saturday was as staid and
quiet as a rural funeral, people SEEM
ing to be pretty well satisfied with
the Republican attitude Onithe liquor
question, and ready TO trust it in the
future. No good observer doubts
that, the prohibition vote i'm this state
next fall will show a large a large
and permanent reductiOn.-IthGca
/ ". IL JOuTnut.
THE Republicans Of Mcpherson
have nominated the following ticket:
county treasurer, p. T. LindhOlm;
register Of deeds, A. G. RObb; coun-
ty clerk, w. A. Morris; sheriff,
wallace Gleason; coroner, DIR. Eng
berg; surveyor, w. r. Duvall; COM
missioner, lst district, J. NJ. Under
wood. A motion was made in the
conventisn to have the choice of
that body expressed for District
Judge, but Il failed 10 pass.
TIE notorious Gen. StringfellOW,
Of AtchisOn, who has been spending
the summer at Cape May, said re-
Gently tO a newspaper reporter, i'm
reply to the question whether he
took any part in the war, "NO,
got enough Of trying 10 help the
South when the southern men failed
TO help US make Kansas a slave state
by refusing 10 send theiI negroes
there. DO what we would, we couldn't
make il a slave state without slaves"
1T is suggested by an Atlanta
paper that the president, upon his
visit south, should be welcomed by |
JEFF Davis. Very appropriate. The |
president has hOnOred scores Of |
leading rebel chieftains by placing |
them in the best and most distin-
guished position Of the land, and
why should not this relic Of the
rebellion congratulate His Excel
leney upon his sympathy for the
q" lost cause" and its victims"
MUGwUMPs are patriotic set, who
seek only the hOnOrs Of their afiilia-
tions. Out OF the many thousand
offices at the disposal Of the admin
istraiion, two only, Pearson In New
York, and young Beeeher i'm Oregon,
were duly remembered for putting
the Democracy In power. The
offices have nearly all been given
out.
IN the case Of the town OF Everest,
which applied for a depot at a sid
ling and n dangerous place 10 the
town, the railway commissioners
decide they are not warranted in
granting the prayer Of the petition
srs. SO g would seem railways have
some rights which other people are
bound to respect.
THE editor Of the Winfield Visitor
vas assaulted by a jointist for
iaying something Of his business
not Of HIM that displeased him.
fhe irate person was laid In the
7utter for his pains.
The Kansas City Times has inter
riewed SJs Republicans and S2S
IN Kansas, and Blaine
md Cleveland are the choice Of the
respective party members, "by q
srge majority
IvEs, the great Wall street OpeF-
tor, IL called the Napoleon Of
Nall street, His late reverses,
hen, should be called "Ives' Water
90" Such being the case, we shall
lear no more Of Ives In Wall street.
A NAN at Topeka was brought be-
ore the police court for jumping on
train. II In Salina the same prae-
Ice was followed, the court would
ave 20 hire q hall IN which 20 bring 4
The Bonham opera house st Clay
enter, which is magnificent strue-
ure, will be formally opened tO-mor- 9
nv night with the appearance Of the q
,uby-Iasfayette combination.
PHILADELPHIA Nsigs: "Kansas,
eing too far inland to possess a sea
srlent, announces hailsiOnes as
lrge a. pumpkins ss q summer At